Issue 2024.01

The Big Picture

A bear with a trout in it's mouth, breaking guts with its teeth.
© Amy Gulick  Salmon are a life force nourishing bears, birds, marine mammals, people, insects, and even trees.

What Photographers Can Learn from Fish

Words and Images by Amy Gulick

Buried in winter nests of gravel in clear cool streams, fertilized salmon eggs are ready to hatch. Wiggling embryos release an enzyme, which causes the egg membrane to break. The newborns, called alevins, are about the size of a thumbnail. Alevins retain the egg’s yolk sac as a nutrient-rich lunch bag that provides the developing fish with food.

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Wild Eye Magazine Cover Issue 2024.01

2024.01

Contents

  1. Paul Nicklen on Keeping the Wild in Wildlife Photography
  2. Why Ansel Adams Still Inspires (& Confounds) Photographers Today
  3. Reuben Wu’s Otherworldly Landscapes Were Shot with an iPhone
  4. How to Develop Style in Outdoor Photography
  5. What Photographers Can Learn from Fish
  6. 3 Ways to Give Your Photos More Depth
  7. What’s In Wildlife Photographer Anupam Thombre’s Camera Bag?
  8. Why Monterey Bay Is Great for Photography
  9. How This Incredible Image of Tiny Diatoms Was Captured